Family Fountain
Experiential art installation
Family Fountain is an experiential installation emerging from my ongoing research into the family fountain as a spatial metaphor for generational structures and inner dynamics. The work creates a temporary environment in which visitors can explore their position, movement and direction in relation to the space and their own internal structures. The installation marks a shift in my practice toward a more internally oriented form of experiential work, where position, movement and inner alignment become active elements of the experience.
Family Fountain investigates how inner structures become visible and tangible within a spatial composition. The installation brings together natural and domestic materials such as willow branches, PVC conduits and electrical elements to create a minimal framework in which vulnerability and structure coexist. The sculptural light elements introduce a second register: grounded in domestic materiality yet functioning as intuitive guides, they open a perceptual field beyond conceptual framing.
This work anchors my shift toward spatial installations in which inner orientation and positioning form the core artistic focus. It deepens my investigation into the tension and interplay between personal orientation and the larger structures that shape our world, and the degree to which we can navigate or influence these dynamics.
This installation extends the visual and conceptual language developed in my ongoing series of ink paintings, in which I first envisioned my own family fountain.
Performance video
The installation and the performance emerged simultaneously from an experience‑based working process. Drawing on the metaphor of the family fountain introduced by Bert Hellinger, which I approach critically within my own artistic and cosmological investigation, I explored how a conceptual notion that cannot be directly felt could be materialised and opened up spatially. My engagement with this metaphor emerged from a simultaneous need to understand its implications and to explore how it could take form through an embodied and spatial process.
I built a layered formation of willow branches from the crown of the head downward, following an expanding sequence grounded in my own cosmological approach to the metaphor. This process resulted in a structure consisting of three standing circles supported by a fourth, each increasing in size.
This work is part of my broader trajectory of Experiential Installations , developed in applied contexts where spatial orientation and movement become active components of the experience.
